On my way home from DC, I rode on Midwest Airlines, and they had some interesting KC stories in their magazine. An article on coffee houses, then one on condos. The condo article states, "Another project, Jenkins Music Building Lofts, will be located just north of the Sprint Center. The Jenkins Music Building was a music factory and the 30's terra-cotta structure will be a series of unique 1.800 square foot, one per-floor units." This is amazing. I have thought about how they could do this for a long time. It is in an awesome location too. It will be interesting to see how this is executed.

There have been murmurs about Jenkins becoming condo for some time without much tangible evidence - based on the other accuracy issues, I would wager that the airline rag is just reporting based on those murmurs.

Still dont see how they can put units in there without blocking the actual parking structure from access. The parking surface and ramps are the same, plus the elevator access for the garage is through the Jenkins facade.

Yeah I would expect that if they ever convert Jenkins they will mostly stick to the existing floorplates and limit it to a handful of ultra premium units - perhaps multiple floors per unit. In that location, I would think an "ultra exclusive" project could command a very premium price.

The building is a facadectomy, there are no existing floorplates. Who would pay top dollar for a 15 foot wide unit? It still begs the question what would they do with the 3 elevators that service the garage?

It is my understanding that the floor structure will be new, but the units will exist entirely in the remaining envelope of the jenkins building. I'll double check with someone i know who has worked on the design...

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i think it would be far more appealing to extend the ground floor into the garage to accommodate retail space. the art installations are great, but that block could be so much more once the grocery store and condo tower are complete.